The festival

Free access on site, but you can pre-book your slot online. Discover 2 on-board experiences: "Présentes", the immersive exhibition with the exceptional collaboration of the Louvre Museum, and the sound voyage in the Mediterranean created by Ircam x Centre Pompidou. Sailing by Laure Prouvost.

Under the Azure is an exhibition paying tribute to the Mediterranean Sea, to the imagery it evokes, to the awe it inspires, and to the ancient and contemporary myths associated with it.

This exhibition explores the Mediterranean in the context of migration and exile, highlighting the work of emerging photographers from the region.

Discover recent virtual reality creations connected to the themes of the Art Explora Festival: heritage, art culture, migrations...

"www (world war water)" is a durational performance and installation. It is a mise-en-situation of the worst of scenarios: with the last remaining cup, how is power negotiated, resources indulged and rationed, alliances formed and broken? Featuring Aïda Jamal and Imane Elkabli, with scenographic direction by Lori Kharpoutlian, this performance was initially conceived of and produced within the frame of the 2024 edition of the Youmein Festival under the theme of Steadfastness/Sumud with support from A.MAL Projects and the American Language Center - Tangier

Kicking off the program conceived by Alain Weber and Laila Hida, AⵣMⵣ, (read AZMZ) meaning "Air of Time" in Amazigh, is a unique musical and visual performance, featuring the timeless melodies and bewitching rhythms of the Ahwach of the Bnat Louz women's troupe, revisited with a contemporary touch of electronic music by the Raskas duo.

Rooted in histories of water and ecological infrastructures, the exhibition ricochets ("this time it's personal") gives voice to tired djinns, mysterious aquatic creatures and exhausted tourist operators. It deciphers the politics of creating and redefining spaces-images-territories and the right to belong to them.

Opening day of the Art Explora Festival in Tangier. At programme : official speeches, performances, concerts, DJ sets...

The first panel talk opens on the city of Tangier! Conversation proposed by Think Tanger, an innovative cultural organization in dialogue with Port Cities, a project that extends thinking on port cities and maritime spaces beyond the Mediterranean.

The vibrant duo from Aita electro make their Tangier debut in a concert that sets the tone for the festival! Aïta Mon Amour is a duo made up of Widad Mjama and Khalil EPI . This project is the fruit of Widad's fascination with the ancestral Moroccan art of the Aïta, a popular musical genre rooted in the Moroccan countryside and sung by the Chikhates, the women guardians of a centuries-old tradition. Aïta, meaning 'cry' or 'call' in Moroccan dialect Arabic, embodies both the call of the warriors and the lament of love. This contemporary electronic musical project explores this rich tradition dating back to the 12th century. Aïta Mon Amour honors this oral art form with a desire to build bridges between past and present, to deconstruct the perceptions that define the genre, and to make it resonate in the contemporary, digital age.

GJ LEITH and GBW9 export the Marrakchia avant-garde with their G2G evening. G2G (GET 2GETHER) is a proposal initiated by a trio made up of GJ LEITH, GBW9 and Alia Belgsir since the first artistic residencies organized by the collective as part of the Khial Nkhel project. They offer the dj booth to 212 Thug, a rising star on the Moroccan scene, and Ninafterdark, a talented Italian artist and DJ with an elusive style.

Plastic is such an integral part of our daily lives that it seems almost indispensable. How does our relationship with plastic manifest itself? Is it really essential to our lives? How do we perceive its impact on our society and our environment?

Mouhawalat Collective (Diyae Bourhim & Ahmad Karmouni), will welcome to Mahatta a selection of art students recently graduated from the INBA, to invest and activate the hybrid space of their installation through a series of in situ interventions that vary from day to day for the duration of the Festival. A wider circle, an invitation to explore the imaginaries and narratives that shape our collective understanding of the art world. This proposal questions the practical realities and struggles inherent in the creative process, exploring the expectations and realities of young artists in transition between the academy and the professional world.

A listening session proposed by artist Abdellah M. Hassak to navigate a sound cartography of water in Morocco and beyond.

Join us every afternoon for a musical community journey with Radio Alhara, broadcasting live from Bethlehem.

Join artist and author Aicha Bint Yusif to read Palestinian poetry together and write collectively about forms of solidarity and our hopes for the future.

Ocean Weekends" are part of the Festival program, inviting researchers, scientists and artists to round-table discussions on the theme of the ocean and climate change. to discuss the theme of the ocean and the climate emergency, with a local approach that is renewed at each stage.

L'éloge du sensible is a chapter in a new series of photos and videos by artist Hamedine Kane, stemming from his iconographic research for the project "Le livre d'image, Africa XXI #1, Les luttes". Anchored in a perpetual wandering movement, this approach explores the manifestations of the living, bypassing anxiety-provoking social and political situations. Kane favors intimate, secret spaces of production, mobilizing the power of becoming in motion. Unlike power, which is often oppressive, power always belongs to and serves the people. The confinement and violence inflicted on the people are not inevitable, for with power, the people engage in a permanent revolutionary process.

For its second Panel Talk, Think Tangier will continue to elaborate on the destiny of cities and their transformations accelerated by exogenous factors. This meeting launches their new cycle entitled "Synthetic Agencies".

In conjunction with Hamedine Kane's solo show at the Ibn Battuta Museum, the artist is offering an exclusive screening of three of his short films in the Agora. The screening will be accompanied by a talk with Senegalese curator Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy about one of the artist's latest projects, which investigates the disastrous consequences of industrial fishing on Dakar's fishing communities. La Maison Bleue, Habiter le monde, A l'ombre de nos fantômes

Inspired by "Gyotaku", an ancient Japanese technique for reproducing fish prints on materials such as paper or fabric, this workshop led by Abderrahim Benatabou aims to raise awareness of the fragile existence of these species.

Bahija Sajid uses a monologue that blends plastic poetry and lyrical prose to reclaim her gesture of transmission. The performance combines hand-weaving and singing, exploring the transmission of stories and craft skills.

"Dima Dayma" is the steroid-boosted, Cornelian autobiography of a polymer who would have preferred death to eternal wandering. Tossed about by the wind, the ragmen and the waves, a plastic bag recounts its misadventure to anyone who will listen. The story is supplemented by valuable information from waste management professionals, a former ragpicker and members of civil society...

Come and discover the various Art Explora Festival exhibitions with your association or group!

While discovering the city by bike with MJ Bike, you'll have the opportunity to use your QALAM to draw and capture the surrounding details. This activity combines art and sustainable mobility, allowing you to enjoy the city while minimizing your ecological footprint.

Qanat's residents and curator Francesca Masoero take over the Agora to present their latest research in a performative format that blends mythology, storytelling and contemporary art.

A unique encounter between two myths of Amazigh music and rock!

With this performance, Ayman El Gadi invites us to share, to eat apricots together, and reminds us of the act of playing. The performance invites the audience to become involved in the creation of a whistled harmony, a unison. The audience will take away the core; a fragment of the performance.

Discover the exhibition exploring new and ancient mythologies of water with guest artists Youmein and QANAT. Rooted in water histories and ecological infrastructures, the work gives voice to tired djinns, mysterious aquatic creatures and exhausted tourist operators. It deciphers the politics of creating and redefining image-spaces and the right to belong to them. Like Atlas condemned to carry the weight of the world, the installation questions who defines and supports the histories and imaginaries of our contemporaries.

Walk-performance, mobile exhibition and conversation. Departure from the Darna association to the Art Explora Village. A restitution of works produced in workshop during the week with association Darna. Organic Knowledge is an art and research project that aims to create a collaborative archive of the cultural practices of under-represented communities in Morocco through artistic residencies and workshops. Organic Knowledge asks questions about the ethics and methodology of working with populations that are victims of systemic violence, and how their marginalized cultural practices can redefine dominant narratives about migration by providing a more accurate picture of these populations. For this edition of Art Explora, The Minority Globe proposes a mobile exhibition and performances between the city and the agora, conceived during a new creative workshop in Tangier.

Exclusive presentation of the latest musical epic across Morocco by Vincent Moon, a pioneer of musical film.

A conversation between artist Anne Lise Broyer and author Mohammed Bennis, moderated by Stéphanie Gaou, on the relationship between images and language in the Mediterranean. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition "Est-ce là que l'on habitait?" by Anne Lise Broyer at the Galerie Delacroix of the Institut français de Tanger.

The Spanish residents selected for the programme cross-residency program at the Art Explora festival present an exit performance after three months of research and creation. Juan Gallego Berno and Carmen Yruela's multidisciplinary performance explores themes of identity, memory and urban space. Fusing electronic music, traditional flamenco and visual arts, this project pushes the boundaries of conventional art forms. Collaborating with artists from diverse backgrounds, they create an immersive experience inviting the audience to reflect deeply on the contemporary world. The performance includes video projections, sound installations and choreographic interventions. They invite you to celebrate creativity and artistic innovation with them on this unique evening.

For this evening's tribute to Ahmed Bouanani, a major artistic figure and fervent defender of transmission and memory against oblivion, we'll be screening his two fiction films: Les quatres sources, his short film in color, a dreamlike poetic essay, followed by the masterpiece and only feature film Le Mirage. Both explore the space of folk tale and myth.

Es-sousy invites us to meditate on the crossing and experience of wandering, which carries the artist along in constant flux towards mutual influences with those around him, contributing to his construction. The artist composes a visual allegory of these flows, blending landscape, sound, installation and performance.

A final tour of the exhibition with the artist! A time to discuss Anne-Lise Broyer's practice and the slow process behind her photography, in partnership with the Institut Français de Tanger.

A different kind of "anti-fashion" show, a collaborative, funny, joyful and subversive theatrical performance about the clothing industry, the relationship to fashion and the representation manifested by the famous Catwalk.

The film trilogy "Tetuan, Tetuán, تطوان" examines the Spanish colonial past in Morocco and its impacts on Spanish society through a collaborative approach. Each part, co-developed with Moroccan and Spanish cultural partners, resignifies places such as the Plaça de Tetuan in Barcelona, the Tetuán de las Victorias district in Madrid and the Teatro Cine "Español" in Tétouan. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with researcher Aicha Trinidad Gououi, who was a guest chronicler during the filming of the second chapter, and who will read a text combining logbook, theoretical reflections and family stories to open the debate on the creative process and the methodological and ethical positions of the two artists.

Join us in front of the stage for an improvisation workshop with dancer and choreographer Said El Haddaji.

In partnership with the Institut Français du Maroc, discover choreographer Said el Haddaji's piece for 5 dancers in its open-air version around the agora.

Join us for a concert by Casablanca rapper Issam, virtuoso of the hybrid genre between trap, raï and electro.

Join us for the second carte blanche given to GJ LEITH, who are reviving a mythical proposal from the Marrakchia underground nights with the G2G evenings. G2G (get together) is a proposal initiated by a trio made up of GJ LEITH, GBW9 and Alia Belgsir since the first artistic residencies organized by the collective within the Khial Nkhel project. GJ LEITH and GBW9 propose a B2B set with a special guest to discover...

In the act of creating and recreating his living spaces, Aymane Ait Yahya offers a performative meditation on the transitory nature of home, identity and the impact of our experiences on our sense of place and belonging.

As part of programme "24hs/Palestine" from September 28 to 29, LE 18 has selected 66k, a young DJ and artist from Fez, to present a mix exploring protest songs. From contemporary underground to traditional popular song; exploring counter-culture and militant song, this DJ SET will be broadcast live from the village to Radio Al Hara, a Palestinian internet radio station born in Bethlehem during the confinement.

The popular fair is set up in the village square, with games, a dancer, a violinist, a chouafa... a little world of moussems and villages comes to life for a convivial and joyful moment.

A brand-new creation! With Si Laarabi, Bouchra Ouizguen continues to probe and question the human in the force of the body's presence, in its thickness, in its blossoming, its coiling and its contestations, in the cultural manifestations it bears and shapes since a time before time.

The sheikhats of the eponymous Kabareh will take on the repertoire of Aïta Marsawiya, from Casablanca to Safi, sung by such great names as Bouchaib El Bidaoui, Maréchal Qibbo and Hajja Hamdaouia, among others. Songs that tell a social story, the exploits of heroes and mythical characters. A poetry of tears and joys, echoing a collective memory.

A photowalk, directed by Mounir Rahmouni and Iliass Sefrioui (Qomra), puts forward the idea that the path travelled becomes itself the subject, captured through the lens of the cameras.

In the act of creating and recreating his living spaces, Aymane Ait Yahya offers a performative meditation on the transitory nature of home, identity and the impact of our experiences on our sense of place and belonging.

A closing party on the agora with DJ and producer Leïla Koumiya, who moves between club music, bass music, mahragan and drum'n bass.